Product Pick of the week

Costco's Daily Multivitamin Pack (by request)

I told Holly about this product and she agreed it would make a good product pick of the week.

This is the best vitamin pack I (in my admitedly limited vitamin experience) have ever seen.

For comprehensive vitamin content and total value for your money I don't believe you can find a better deal.

Each packet contains 5 vitamin tablets and 2 softgels, including ginseng. The back of the box gives a complete rundown of all the vitamins it includes and basically blows any other daily vitamin, including one-a-days and prenatals, out of the water.

Because there are 7 different pills you can leave out anything that you don't want.

But also because there are 7 different pills it almost feels like a meal to take them all. I found they all went down best with milk.

I started taking these because I felt totally drained of energy all the time and could barely make it through the day. Every day that I took them I had all the energy I needed, and after taking them consistently for 6 months or so I found that I kept the energy even when I didn't take them.

I have come to believe my body was pretty much drained of nutrients after giving birth to two children and nursing them each for over a year. Taking these vitamins helped replace those nutrients.

I don't take them daily anymore, but I do keep them around for when I am feeling a vitamin low or need a little extra energy that day.

It would probably be good for me to continue to take them everyday.

There are 2 downsides to these vitamins. The first comes right after you take them if you take them on an empty stomach. That downside is that you might puke.

Solution: eat something before you take them.

The other downside comes about 10-12 hours after you take them. Especially if you have not been taking them long. By that evening you will have an energy crash. Though not as bad as what you get after an energy drink, you'll just realize that after having so much energy, which helped you be so busy and accomplish so much all day long, you are suddenly very tired. This will help you sleep good, but you might not be able to stay up late.

Solution: Take the vitamins about 12 hours before you want to go to bed. ie, If you want to go to bed at 11:00 pm, take the vitamins at 11:00 am. But if you take them too late you might not be able to sleep when you want to.

And don't waste your money in a vitamin shop. One box of these, which includes 100 vitamin packs, costs just under 15 bucks. That's only 15 cents for each pack. That's less than 5 bucks a month. You pay more than that for unlimited texting.

You can't beat the energy these packs will give you for 15 cents a pop. These are a must have for anyone who is looking for a good vitamin or more energy. And that's not saying anything about how your hair and nails will grow while you take these.

If you don't have a Costco membership you might want to consider it just for these. Or find a friend who had a membership and have them pick it up for you.

Definitely a good pick.

God and the Spider

Below is a link to a story that is pretty cool and inspiring.

I have heard the story before. What I actually like best about this one, and why I didn't just copy and paste it in a blog, is the music that accompanies the story.

I believe it is Elvis Presley and a choir singing one of my favorite hymns, "How Great Thou Art".

Enjoy.

>>>>> God and the Spider <<<<<

Why it's better to be the boss...

That's one reason why I'm self employed.

Brainteaser

I had a hard time with this one. This causes my mind to twist in a way that it is not accustomed to twisting. Which is a little surprising since my mind is pretty twisted.

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"We're all keen on yachting in these parts," said my tow-headed friend, Thalia Collingwood.

"Father has a yacht, and so has each of his four friends: Colonel Drake; Mr. Nelson; Sir Barnacle Hood; and Dr. Benbow.

"What's more, each of the five has just the one daughter, and each has named his yacht after the daughter of one of the others. So you see (she concluded proudly) "there's a dear little yacht named after me.

"Sir Barnacle's yacht is the Gabrielle; Mr. Collingwood owns the Lorna; Mr. Nelson, the Rosalind. The Melissa, owned by Colonel Drake, is named after Sir Barnacle's daughter. Gabrielle's father owns the yacht which is named after Dr. Benbow's daughter.

Who is Lorna's father?

Quote

I have to put this because Mark just came up to me and said:

"Did you know stupid people don't waste stuff? If something is rotten they just eat it anyway."

One liners

My brother Mike (who is serving in Iraq) e-mailed me a bunch of jokes from his favorite comedian Mitch Hedberg.

Here are some of my favorites:

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I have a cheese-shredder at home, which is its positive name. They don't call it by its negative name, which is sponge-ruiner. Because I wanted to clean it, and now I have little bits of sponge that would melt easily over tortilla chips...

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If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be messed-up.

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I think foosball is a combination of soccer and shishkabobs.

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An escalator can never break. It can only become stairs. You would never see an "Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order" sign, just "Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience."

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My friend said to me, "You know what I like? Mashed potatoes." I was like, "Dude, you have to give me time to guess. If you're going to quiz me you have to insert a pause."

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I'm against picketing, but I don't know how to show it.

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This product that was on TV was available for four easy payments of $19.95. I would like a product that was available for three easy payments and one complicated payment. We can't tell you which payment it is, but one of these payments is going to be hard.

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I got my hair highlighted, because I felt some strands were more important than others.

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The next time I move I hope I get a real easy phone number, something like 2222222. People will ask, "Mitch, how do I get a hold of you?" I'll say, "Just press two for a while, when I answer, you'll know that you've pressed two enough."

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You know they call corn-on-the-cob, "corn-on-the-cob", but that's how it comes out of the ground. They should just call it corn, and every other type of corn, corn-off-the-cob.

It's not like if someone cut off my arm they would call it "Mitch", and then re-attached it, and call it "Mitch-all-together".

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Puzzles

These 2 are pretty easy. But there are 2 of them to extend your fun! -

1. A farmer combined two compost heaps with three others. How many compost heaps does he have?

2. A large family consists of seven sons and each one of them has one sister. How many people are in that family?